Narrative Self

Well, yes, hello from me I may have had the Mac back for a couple of days, but those couple of days have been a bit fraught; connecting to the internet has been at best intermittent.  But after another trip to the Mac shop and a call to BT I think I’m finally sorted. Apart from putting everything back in place that’s disappeared since the demise of the unbacked-up hard-drive  that is, *groans loudly*.

It feels like I’ve been away forever. It’s hard to actually remember what life was like before we had personal computers, but I know I had one (a life, that is). I wonder what it was I filled my days with? Probably that making art business, or maybe even reading. So, two weeks without a computer and what have I got to show for it?  Well at least a few things worth sharing with you, I think!  I thought I’d use this first post to show you the finished lap quilt I was working on, before every thing Mac went tits-up (what a wonderful phrase that is, it does make me smile).  It’s in an exhibition at the moment at  Art House 2 near Portsmouth, so if you’re in the area pop in and have a look!

I called it Saffron Field because the colours have a warm spicy feel, but next to the daffodils I think Spring Field would have worked just as well!

Picnic anyone?!

Stringy detail! You can see some of the hand quilting too.

OMG - now what's going on?! It's upside down

Did I speak too soon or something? I thought all my internet/Mac problems were over. But as is obvious from the image above, I was wrong! Oh so wrong… Why oh why is WordPress uploading my images any which way IT likes and not the way I tell it to? All I want is for my pictures to be the RIGHT WAY UP – is this too much to ask? Apparently. I’m running out of ideas now – I’ve tried turning them up the other way in iPhoto and loading them, hoping they’ll come out the right way up, but no they still come out upside down. All I can suggest now is that you turn your monitor upside down. I may well be about to throw mine out of the window.

I’m so sorry; I’m sure you can detect my frustration and irritability. I wanted to come back here with a colourful, jolly post (well as jolly as I can be!) and here I am growling. Maybe I should head off to bed and hope that the world is the right way up when I wake up in the morning – do you think that might work?  Pigs might fly I guess!

I hope your weekend has been a bit less frustrating?  Have you been up to anything fun?  I went for a lovely walk along the cliffs with Kim yesterday and I even had some photos to show you, but I think I’ll save that for now!  I had planned to go for a run today, just three miles, and do a bit of gardening, but it’s been raining so heavily I couldn’t bear to go out.  Deluge is an understatement.  My wee bit of lawn will be a swamp; I expect to see alligators in the morning. I did manage a trip to the garden centre though and bought a few packets of annual seeds: pansies; violas; petunias; stock; godetia and some cupid’s dart (a perennial that apparently flowers in it’s first year).  They should add some colour to my pots and flower beds this summer.  I don’t know about you, but planting seeds always makes me think positive thoughts about the future, I guess it’s the anticipation of colour and warmth!  Notice I didn’t say sun?  This is Cornwall: we can’t guarantee sun here but we can definitely guarantee rain!

Well my lovelies, I think I really will head off now and leave the problems for tomorrow.  I hope you had a good weekend and look forward to catching up with you soon.

love Stephie x